In
a report on its web site dated April 2010, entitled "Meet The Patriots,"
the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) profiled "36 individuals
at the heart of the resurgent [patriot] movement." (In reading
the list, I counted only 35 "patriots" and 5 "enablers"
for a total of 40. I'm not really sure how the SPLC came up with "36."
Perhaps their ability to count is commensurate with their ability to
appreciate patriotism and liberty.) The SPLC (founded by Morris Dees)
sees itself as America's guardian against "right wing militias"
and loves to label conservatives and libertarians that it doesn't like
as "extremists." The SPLC is one of the most ultra-liberal
organizations in the country and should be dismissed as a group of paranoid
leftists, not worthy of thought or mention.

The
sad truth is, however, our federal government has chosen to exalt the
SPLC to the position of being its "go to" source for information
regarding "potential domestic terrorists" and similar characterizations.
As a result, the information and reports disseminated by SPLC wind up
in police reports and bulletins all over the United States. As an example,
the SPLC had its fingerprints all over the infamous MIAC report. One
could even question whether the SPLC is merely a front organization
for Big Brother.

Therefore,
it is highly likely that the report negatively profiling 40 American
patriots will find its way into Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
fusion centers and be distributed to police agencies all across the
country. So, should the 40 people who find themselves targeted by SPLC
expect some kind of government/police attention? Are we really that
close to Nazi-style persecution in America? If the SPLC has its way,
the answer seems to be a definite yes.

I
remind readers that in the book, Nazi Justiz: Law of the Holocaust (page
3), there were five steps to Hitler's plans for the destruction of European
Jews. Step 1: Identification/registration of the targeted group as a
public menace. Step 2: Ostracism of the targeted persons. Step 3: property
confiscation. Step 4: Concentration of members into geographical locations.
Step 5: Annihilation. In this latest report, SPLC seems quite willing
to accomplish steps 1 and 2.

Here
are the 40 names that are targeted in the SPLC report (and guess who
is listed at the very top? Yours truly):

The
SPLC, no doubt, sees each person on the above list as being a leader
of the "radical right," a "conspiracist," and "antigovernment."
But understand, the SPLC makes its living off of big-government, leftist
ideology. To say it is a shill for Big Government Liberalism is an understatement.
The SPLC is so radical it makes the ACLU look conservative!

Again,
this SPLC report would not even merit a mention (much less an entire
column) except for the fact that the SPLC has become a source of information
fuelling anti-freedom hysteria for countless bureaucrats at the DHS.
Add this to the previously exposed MIAC and DHS reports, and the Army
major's report blaming "millennialist" Christians for much
of the ills of the world, and a disturbing trend is quickly developing:
so-called right-wing ANYTHING is being targeted and demonized as a "public
menace."

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But
the lists that you and I are not seeing are even more disturbing.

Joel
Skousen quotes (Radar Magazine's) Christopher Ketcham's The Last Roundup
as asking if the federal government is "compiling a secret enemies
list of citizens who could face detention?" He goes on to say,
"A number of former government employees and intelligence sources
with independent knowledge of domestic surveillance operations claim
the program that caused the flap between [former assistant attorney
general under John Ashcroft, James] Comey and the White House was related
to a database of Americans who might be considered potential threats
in the event of a national emergency. Sources familiar with the program
say that the government's data gathering has been overzealous and probably
conducted in violation of federal law and the protection from unreasonable
search and seizure guaranteed by the Fourth Amendment.

"A
veteran CIA intelligence analyst who maintains active high-level clearances
and serves as an advisor to the Department of Defense in the field of
emerging technology tells Radar that during the 2004 hospital room drama
[between former Chief of Staff Andrew Card and Attorney General Ashcroft,
in an attempt by Card to coerce a very ill Ashcroft to authorize President
Bush's secretive domestic spying programs as his assistant--and acting--attorney
general had refused to do so], James Comey expressed concern over how
this secret database was being used 'to accumulate otherwise private
data on non-targeted U.S. citizens for use at a future time.'"

The
report further states, "According to a senior government official
who served with high-level security clearances in five administrations,
'There exists a database of Americans, who, often for the slightest
and most trivial reason, are considered unfriendly, and who, in a time
of panic, might be incarcerated. The database can identify and locate
perceived "enemies of the state" almost instantaneously.'"
At this point, Skousen noted, "And that is precisely why the census
bureau took a GPS coordinate on every front door in America, secretly
linking this to dissidents and their known addresses."

This
database of Americans who are perceived to be potential "enemies
of the state" goes by the code name "Main Core." And
according to the report, "One knowledgeable source claims that
8 million Americans are now listed in Main Core as potentially suspect.
In the event of a national emergency, these people could be subject
to everything from heightened surveillance and tracking to direct questioning
and possibly even detention.

"Officials
at the Department of Homeland Security begin actively scrutinizing people
who--for a tremendously broad set of reasons--have been flagged in Main
Core as potential domestic threats [sound familiar?]. Some of these
individuals might receive a letter or a phone call, others a request
to register with local authorities. Still others might hear a knock
on the door and find police or armed soldiers outside. In some instances,
the authorities might just ask a few questions. Other suspects might
be arrested and escorted to federal holding facilities, where they could
be detained without counsel until the state of emergency is no longer
in effect."

The
report also noted that former Assistant Attorney General James Comey
"had concluded that the use of that 'Main Core' database compromised
the legality of the overall NSA domestic surveillance project. 'If Main
Core does exist,' says Philip Giraldi, a former CIA counterterrorism
officer and an outspoken critic of the agency, 'the Department of Homeland
Security (DHS) is its likely home. If a master list is being compiled,
it would have to be in a place where there are no legal issues--the
CIA and FBI would be restricted by oversight and accountability laws--so
I suspect it is at DHS, which as far as I know operates with no such
restraints.' Giraldi notes that DHS already maintains a central list
of suspected terrorists and has been freely adding people who pose no
reasonable threat to domestic security."

So,
is there a secret list of 8 million "unfriendly" Americans
kept by DHS (if there is, dear reader, you are probably on it!)? Does
anyone reading this column doubt that our federal government is more
than willing and capable of doing such a thing? All of us are quite
familiar with the government's "no fly" or "flagged"
airline passenger list. I can personally attest to the authenticity
of this list, as airport officials in San Antonio, Texas, told me that
I'm on it. I also made it to the "list of three" that were
named in the MIAC report (the other two were Ron Paul and Bob Barr).
And now I am on the SPLC list of "patriots" (not a compliment
in the SPLC lexicon). Wow! I never realize how popular I was! (With
the exception of Ron Paul, I'm probably on more lists than anyone in
America.)

Who
would ever have thought that the day would come in America when to speak
up for freedom, constitutional government, and the principles expressed
by our Founding Fathers would land one on a government watch list? Well,
that day is here, my friend! No doubt, the major media and federal government--in
order to further ostracize patriotic, God-fearing Americans--will use
the SPLC patriot hit list as a vehicle to carry our country further
down the road of oppression.

But
what the radical left fearmongers at the Southern Poverty Law Center
fail to realize is that the more they try to marginalize and ostracize
American patriots such as you and me, the more they isolate themselves
from America's future, because millions and millions of hard-working,
God-fearing, liberty-loving Americans are not going to sit back and
let Morris Dees and his cabal of Big Government elitists destroy the
principles of freedom in our land.

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So,
people such as Morris Dees can put us on as many lists as they like;
we will never let liberty die! And the more they try to demonize us,
the more people will want to join with us. You see, freedom burns deep
and strong in the hearts of real Americans. And that's something the
SPLC can't extinguish--no matter how many lists it makes!

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Again,
this SPLC report would not even merit a mention (much less an entire column)
except for the fact that the SPLC has become a source of information fuelling
anti-freedom hysteria for countless bureaucrats at the DHS.